Question

Did you read the book Guinness World Records (《吉尼斯世界纪录》）before? From the world's heaviest person and the oldest woman to the world's smallest dog, these are all parts of the strangest people and things. And they are all in the Guinness World Records.

People celebrate its birthday in August. And it's always one of the best-selling books in the world.

People now can break over 1,000 records every week ！ Why do so many people want to break the records? Do they want their names in the book or meet more people around the world? "It gives people a chance to show they're the best in the world,"said

one of the record keepers Stewart Newport.

The book was started by Hugh Beaver from theUnited   Kingdom. In 1951， he went shooting (射击) birds and talked with his friends about the fastest bird in Europe. Three years later, they started a book to record the world's greatest people and things ！

One of the books came out on Tuesday. There arc twelve parts in this book. It talks about the natural world, people's achievements, sports and other things. This book has a lot of interesting records. Here are two:

The world's smallest dog is only 10cm long.

An American woman has the longest fingernails (指甲).They grew as long as 600mm ！

      (       )1.   The word "strangest" means in Chinese.

A.最友好的         B.最奇怪的

C最活跃的         D.最有天赋的

(       )2.  Guinness World Records started to record
world records about       years ago.

A.   twenty            B. forty

C.   sixty             D. seventy

(       )3.   Many people want to break the records because they want to .

A.   win prizes

B.    be famous

C.    meet more people in the world

D.   show they are the best in the world

       (       )4.   From this  article,   we  can  know that

   A.    Hugh Beaver is fromAmerica

B.    Hugh  Beaver started  the book Guinness World Records by himself

C.    Guinness World Records  only talks about peoples achievements

D.    the  world's   smallest dog   is only 10cm long

         (       )5.  What does this article mainly talk about?

A.   The world's smallest dog.

B.    The world's greatest man.

C.    The book Guinness World Records.

D.   People who broke world records.

Answer 1

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